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Welcome to your weekly rundown of the biggest stories from Netflix’s top 10 hourly figures drop for the week ending December 25th, 2023. This week, we’ll look into the first weekend viewing figures of Rebel Moon – Part 1: A Child of Fire, The Taming of the Shrewd 2, Gyeonseong Creature, and another deep dive into the Netflix Engagement Report.

Every Tuesday, Netflix updates its top 10 stats page with 40 new hourly figures of the top movies and shows of the past seven days. If you want to browse the top 10 hourly data easily, visit our tool, which has just been updated with even more data from the Nielsen top 10s.

Note: In this report of Netflix’s hours viewed from December 18th, 2023 to December 25th, 2023, we’ll use “Complete Viewings Equivalent,” or Cve, expressed in millions. That means we divide the hours viewed announced by Netflix by the runtime of films or series.

The Netflix Polish comedy-drama The Taming of the Shrewd follows a romantic tale of Kaska and Patryk falling for each other. The story centers around Kaska, a beekeeper who has her heart broken after finding out her boyfriend’s been having an affair. But the major conflict of the story begins when Kaska returns to her village only to find out that her brothers are planning to sell their land to a firm. Kaska is strongly against the sale of the land, but the firm owner, Agata, hatches a scheme and tries to convince Kaska to sell the land. The Taming of the Shrewd was first released in 2022 on Netflix, and now the streaming giant is all set to release a continuation of this narrative. Before the sequel part of this film hits the Netflix screen, let’s discuss the things we should know about the film and its characters.

Limited series “Anatomy of a Scandal” has ended “Bridgerton” Season 2’s reign as the No. 1 English-language TV series on Netflix, according to the streaming service’s newly release Top 10 rankings.

For the week of April 18-April 24, “Anatomy of a Scandal” was viewed for 75.6 million hours in its second week of availability, while “Bridgerton” racked up 46 million and landed in the No. 2 slot on the list for the first time since it debuted the week of March 21. In third was new limited series “Conversations With a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes” with 37.5 million hours, and new reality dating series “The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On” was in fourth with 29 million.

The rest of the Top 10 English-language TV series included “Selling Sunset” Season 5 (28.4 million hours), “Bridgerton” Season 1 (17.3 million hours), “Hearstopper” Season 1 (14.6 million hours), “The Creature Cases” Season 1 (13.6 million hours), “Married at First Sight” Season 10 (12.8 million hours) and the Obamas’ new show...

Marvel and D.C. Comics will never team their two biggest superheroes, but this week sees Spider-Man and Batman go head to head at home. “The Batman” (Warner Bros./29.99) is likely to displace “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (Sony/19.99) as the #1 title on PVOD charts next week.

“Spider-Man” is #1 again for the fifth week on all three charts we follow, an unprecedented achievement and one that “The Batman” will not repeat. It’s the top-grossing film of 2022, but at 365 million that’s less than half of Marvel’s 2021 monster hit. “The Batman” also has more competition, and not just from upcoming releases like “Uncharted” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

Its biggest competition is itself: Warners announced last week that the film would debut on HBO Max April 18. That’s the same day it became available on PVOD, but Warners provided no promotion for its same-day availability.

From a marketing perspective,...